Microsoft Sees Stronger XP Sales in FY08 243
Rude Awakening wrote with a PC World article, saying that XP sales will actually be higher next year than they were in 2007. Despite Vista's release, Microsoft admitted this week that it expects the previous version of its operating system to make up a larger percentage of its OS sales in 2008. "According to Liddell, Microsoft will generate the same revenue, more or less, under the new Vista vs. XP numbers, although there might be some slight differences because Vista sales have tended to involve more of the higher-priced versions, dubbed premium by the company, than has XP. The financial forecast didn't spell out that directly, however. The only clue was a US$120 million difference in what Microsoft pegged as the 'undelivered elements' it assigned to unearned income for the coming year."
Vista sales (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Vista sales (Score:3, Informative)
Impressive indeed!
Vista Sucks... (Score:5, Informative)
* 0x80073712 error in doing updates. I've ran in to this problem and did the registry fix to remove StoreDirty, cleaned out the update download directory, and threw up a voodoo doll on the machine to get Windows Updates to install. From what I've read on their forums and other sites I got as results from my Googling, repair install or reinstall is about the only fix.
* Video drivers, I'm still waiting on a 7900gtx nvidia driver that works properly. I'm not at all happy with Vista's performance and driver compatabilities. I spent over $300 on that card FOR VISTA. Why the hell ain't it working properly on my games which aren't even DX10 games. This is more of an Nvidia problem but it just adds another reason for me to not like Vista.
* Renaming everything. Jesus christ I can't find Add/Remove Programs because it was changed to something else. Consistancy for god sake people! I seriously feel like I did after I first installed a copy of Linux, which runs great, but I had this lost feeling and no clue where anything was.
XP may have had more holes in it but it just WORKED. I can't say the same for Vista at all.
Re:Oy (Score:5, Informative)
No is isn't people are just too stupid to read properly, the article is about microsoft changing their predictions about XP sales for next year from 15% up to 22% and vista from 85% down to 78%.
Its amazing how people can get facts so wrong when its practically written in your face
Re:Vista is a failure (Score:1, Informative)
I don't quite see how such a situation benefits Linux. Nor do I quite see how it makes Vista a failure. When XP was released, allot of people hung on to Windows 2000, until SP1 was released. And finally, when 2000 was finally EoL'ed, the majority of people using it moved to either 2k3 or XP. Same thing will happen with Vista.
One of the largest problems with Vista is that not everything works on it (yet). which is something it has in common with Linux. The key difference is that such will begin to change with the release of SP1, the same isn't true for Linux. Vista will even out after SP1. I know it, and as much as you'd like to claim otherwise, so do you.
Troll, flamebait, whatever. Just because I can see/accept it, doesn't mean I like it.
Re:A couple reasons for this (Score:4, Informative)
If you have a MS lic for an OS or Office suite you can install either of the two versions before it, you can contact MS for the nessesary lic code. Our new machines will come with Vista Business lics with WinXP Pro installed, and we could have even asked for Win2k installed. I am not disagreeing with you at all, just pointing out a perhaps not so well known MS lic feature. That way you can always install Vista if/when you decide you are ready for it.